Homeschooling has gotten more attention these days. Even if not many people switch to homeschooling, many people are now curious about it, and along with that, there are many common misconceptions and misunderstandings about homeschooling. So today, I’m going to be talking about some of those misunderstandings as a homeschooled student myself.
Socializing is non-existent.
People think that socializing is non-existent in homeschooling, but that’s not really true. When you are homeschooled, it’s not that you don’t socialize at all, but it’s more like you have to put effort into socializing, because in school, just by going to school, you will somehow end up getting friends, especially if you talk to people.
But obviously, when you are at home the entire day, that’s not going to magically happen. You actually have to go out for events and create opportunities for yourself to socialize. You cannot just sit at home all day and expect friends to appear out of nowhere.
Like for example, for me, I go to church, and a lot of the socializing that I do happens through church events, and I have lots of friends from church. You also meet people in unexpected ways, like through travel or random events, like for example, recently we went to Chail, Himachal Pradesh, and there we met Rakesh Ji, who gave us some really good advice for our futures, sometimes you randomly talk to somebody once, and suddenly you know them for the next 3 years.
And honestly, sometimes homeschooling makes you better at talking to different types of people, because you are not only surrounded by people your exact age all the time. You end up talking to adults, younger kids, and people from completely different backgrounds, which can honestly be pretty useful later in life.
Also, contrary to popular belief, homeschooled kids do know how to communicate with humans. We are not all standing in the corner awkwardly explaining the entire history of cars to people for 3 hours straight.
Homeschooling means no experiences
People also might think that we miss out on many experiences, but that’s actually not true, we get lots of experiences. They may not always be the same experiences as school students, like going on a picnic with your classmates, but we get different experiences that are useful in different ways.
Like for example, we go on many industry visits. We have visited dairy farms, and we even went to a place where they tested guns, and I even managed to hold an air gun, which is definitely not something most people randomly get to do on a normal Tuesday afternoon.
And not just from industry visits, we get many other experiences as well, like travel. Because of homeschooling and not having restrictions from school schedules, we get to travel a lot more often than we probably would have been able to otherwise. And because of that, we got to see many cool places and experience different things, which was great.
Sometimes homeschooling also leads to very random weekdays. One day you are studying math, and the next day you are suddenly in the middle of nowhere looking at a dairy farm wondering why cows wake up earlier than most students.
Of course, homeschooling is not perfect, and it definitely has its own challenges, just like regular school does. But many of the things people assume about homeschooling are usually not fully true. Homeschooling is different from regular school, but different does not mean worse.
And that’s it for this post, see you all next time!
